Creating a Subdomain in cPanel

You have the ability to create subdomains in cPanel. Sub domains function separately from your main domain. Let’s go over an example. If you have a forum for your site, you could create a subdomain called “forum” – and the address would be “forum.yourdomain.com”

Many people use subdomains for mobile versions for their website, forums, blogs, and stores. Subdomains are easily created in your cPanel. Let’s walk through setting up a subdomain.

I already have an inmotion hosting account for business purposes but was lookiing to establish a blog for a subject completely unrelated to and I want my business. My question then is, can I establish a blog without having the business part of my domain appear? for example if my domain is www.wanttoblog.com, and I want to have blog called super cars, will people still see www.iwanttoblog.com?

The answer is yes, you can have a blog that's not related to your other website. People will not see your other domain name if you use a different domain name. Depending on your account type, you register one or more other domain names through AMP. You can then create an add-on domain so that you run a second website that's not related to your first. You'd have to use a different domain name, because if you were to use a subdomain (as per the article above), it would still have your previous domain name in the URL.

I hope that explains it! Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Subdomains have a format like this: subfolder.example.com. Note the subfolder and domain name portions are separated by a . If you are looking to create something like test-example.com or example-test.com these would be considered regular domain names and would need to be registered as such. These would then be added to the cPanel as addon domains.

If you are not pointed to InMotion Hosting's Nameservers: You will have to create subdomains wherever your domain's Nameservers are pointed. Make sure the subdomains they create are pointed to your Shared IP address. Then create the subdomains in cPanel.